Fashion News... from 1928

[JohnMGilbert]

Video could never do justice to the actual film. It's nothing less than a crime that digital took the place of film. Our children will never know what real motion picture color looked like.

[pollywalsh100]

Wonderful styles and isn't it nice to see the models smiling, not like the scowls we see now on the catwalk.

[scotnick59]

wen6pak: simply because 3 strip Technicolor was not available/ready until 1935

[juliet8]

That is so cool that the clothing is from Sibley's! I used to go there with my mom as a kid! Thanks for posting! :)

[altobiotero]

Masterpiece !!

[swallin19]

Re: Technicolor two strip it shows more colours than you expect, including both green and blue, Dr Land of Polariod exploited this in his films, and Technicolor had printing tricks as well, careful planing allowed both green/red and blue /red negatives to be shot, and extra colours could be added if the contrast ranges was controlled, allowing blue sky in re/green shots, and better greens in red/blue.It was expensive to add the extra printing stages, mainly in these shorts,.

[75capriceconvertible]

Terrific vid! What great footage!

[paulj0557]

Could it be said that the changes to fashions in the 1920's are directly responsible for how we dress today?

[vertxxgg]

we still enjoy girlies with sunny side up hats and coshy umbrellas inCapetown at races..buoyancy never perishes*Noel Coward

[NYC1927]

Way too cool to see those ladies, the clothes/hats, the car ALL IN COLOR from 28'!! Thanks for posting!!!!

[paulj0557]

We'll get our chance at our own 20's here in about 9 and 1/2 years. I'd love to crush everything and build it all over again to 1920's specs except keep some of the medicine and air plane technology.

[stlgtrace]

How beautiful!! Very feminine yet chic, modern and assertive styles!!

[EduarquiRJ]

Fabulous document from one of most splendid times for Design and Fashion, thank you very much for giving moments of joy for eyes and souls.

[chkjns]

AMAZING film, only months before the talkies made the piano music obsolete!

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[Hatrevivalist]

Thanks for sharing this I love vintage hat history

Darla

Hat Revivalist

[roybo1930]

GOD! All these Dames are BEAUTIFUL!!!

[roybo1930]

I Wish this WONDERFUL style would come back!!!!!!!!!!! Car`s Included!!!

[hotsickle]

what is the piano selection from?

[BlindandGore]

VINTAGE! ^_^

[DMarksBKLYN]

Actually, I am quite sure this film dates from 1928, or possibly even 1929. The car in the first scene is a 1928 Packard. Also the hats are far too asymmetrical and too low on the back of the head/neck to be from 1927. Nevertheless, what a fantastic Technicolor short release from Universal Pictures.

[atqui]

Many thanks for your remark! I also had doubts about the date after consulting fashion journals of the time.

[ManilaSyndicate]

A question atqui: How'd you know the film's from 1927?

[ManilaSyndicate]

Wow! From '27! It's like Fitzgerald's dames come to life. And that Barbara Bedford was a beaut.

The 20s truly move me. The decade which gave birth to the first cool generation and ushered one of the great changes in world history. On a personal and historical level it strikes deep.

[Patrick3183]

Wonderful!

[wen6pak]

I'm curious - why is this considered two color technicolor and not three? Seems like all the colors are here - it seems more colorful than two color.

[swallin19]

It's really two stripe, alternate frames, and the colour range was limited, with in theory, no green and blue in the same shot, but was done at the printing stages, as it was an ink dye printing process and could be corrected and altered by Technicolor. Reds etc., were good, yellow poor, but could be over printed. this is all why Technicolor used close supervision of the camera work and color balance of the costumes etc.

[atqui]

I suppose it may have been transferred to three-color film and that enriched the color palette.

[HoorayTV21]

Where did this come from? Is it a DVD extra or what? Would love to have the best quality version possible.

[HoorayTV21]

Also perhaps it's just a very good copy and we've just been ruined with to much archive quality 2-strip, also some computer colour managment might have enhanced the colours a bit and i'd have to say that the blue in those intertitles are just b&w tints.

[TimothySEnglish]

Yes I'd like to know where you got it as well, I'd love to have a copy.

[gemear2]

@wen6pak This is definitely two strip Technicolor - the color palette of the actual filmed sections is limited to the green-blue/red spectrum, (with whites that glare) with no true "blue" color in sight. The inter titles are cleverly tinted blue which can confusingly give the appearance that this film is three strip, but it isn't. No workable three strip process existed then.

[physicsmod]

@wen6pak It's only blue and red. blue+red=green

[glawsny]

Very nice & enjoyable Thank You

[DoctorScuba]

This Fashionable little Film is a colorful Gem!

[Yetti0]

I LOVE HATS